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quick oven, about twenty-five minutes. As soon as baked, ice with chocolate
icing, and when this is cold, split them on one side, and fill with the same
cream as "Boston Cream Cakes."
HUCKLEBERRY CAKE.
Beat a cup of butter and two cups of sugar together until light, then add a half
cup of milk, four eggs, beaten separately, the yolks to a cream, and the whites
to a stiff froth, one teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, the same of cinnamon, and
two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. The baking-powder to be rubbed into the
flour. Rub one quart of huckleberries well with some flour, and add them last,
but do not mash them. Pour into buttered pans, about an inch thick; dust the
tops with sugar and bake. It is better the day after baking.
SWEET STRAWBERRY CAKE.
Three eggs, one cupful of sugar, two of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, a
teaspoonful, heaped, of baking-powder. Beat the butter and sugar together, and
add the eggs well beaten. Stir in the flour and baking-powder well sifted
together. Bake in deep tin plate. This quantity will fill four plates. With
three pints of strawberries, mix a cupful of sugar and mash them a little.
Spread the fruit between the layers of cake. The top layer of strawberries may
be covered with a meringue made with the white of an egg and a tablespoonful of
powdered sugar.
Save out the largest berries, and arrange them around in circles on the top in
the white frosting. Makes a very fancy dish, as well as a most delicious cake.
MOLASSES CUP CAKES.
One cupful of butter, one of sugar, six eggs, five cupfuls of sifted flour, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of ginger, three teacupfuls of
cooking molasses, and one heaping teaspoonful of soda. Stir the butter and sugar
to a cream; beat the eggs very light, the yolks and whites separately, and add
to it; after which put in the spices; then the molasses and flour in rotation,
stirring the mixture all the time; beat the whole well before adding the soda,
and but little afterwards. Put into well-buttered patty-pan tins, and bake in a
very moderate oven. A baker's recipe.
BAKERS' GINGER SNAPS.
Boil all together the following ingredients: Two cups of brown sugar, two cups
of cooking molasses, one cup of shortening, which should be part butter, one
large tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, one
teaspoonful of cloves; remove from the fire and let it cool. In the meantime,
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